In the open fields to your right watch for hares boxing, pheasants skitting, skylarks singing, ravens croaking, and buzzards peeping. In spring cowslips and thyme grow … “I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows… (Oberon to Puck in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”). Halfway, a huge 150 yr old oak stands: only a few boundary trees survived the clearance of the west part of Chase Wood (to your left) in the 1980s. The large field is now ploughed cropland, but once, Elizabeth 1 almost certainly hunted there.
Continue along the path until you arrive at a kissing gate and a sandstone block, a secluded patch of woodland and ponds to your left.
These trails follow the same route as the leaflets but provide more detailed and deeper information at each point of interest (and we will keep adding more as we go!).
Please note – these trails are developed and optimised for a mobile experience so may not work effectively on bigger screen sizes.
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Each point contains everything you need to locate it, as well as links to mapping services for its location.
At each point you will find further information pages and links to help interpret where you are and what you are looking at.
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